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Fields of Interest: West Africa (Yoruba, Nigeria) and the African Diaspora (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba), History of Anthropology, Social Theory
Andrew Apter received his Ph.D (anthropology) at Yale University in 1987, and taught at Columbia University (Society of Fellows, 1987-9) and the University of Chicago (1989-2003) before shifting to UCLA. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Lagos in Nigeria (1993), St. Antony s College in Oxford (2000) and the ֹcole des Hautes ֹtudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2001).
Andrew Apter works on ritual, memory, and indigenous knowledge as well as colonial culture, commodity fetishism and state spectacle. His historical ethnography of Yoruba hermeneutics informs his research on syncretism and creolization in West Africa and the Americas.
Recent Book: The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
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